Decommissioning Funding Status Reports

NRC regulations require licensees of nuclear power plants to submit data every two years, and annually in some cases on the status of funds to be put aside to cover the cost of decommissioning their nuclear plants (known as the Decommissioning Funding Status (DFS) Report). The NRC staff independently analyzes each of these reports to determine whether the agency has reasonable assurance the licensees are providing sufficient funding for radiological decommissioning of the reactor when it is permanently shut down. This assurance is referred to as "decommissioning funding assurance (DFA)."

A summary of the DFS report for operating reactors is provided to the Commission on a biennial basis in the form of a SECY paper. A partial list of these reports are: